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Jan 18, 2012 | 03:50 AM

I<3myCB7

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Stretched tires

Would you stretched your tires if it was daily driven and would you also stretched it if you race your car?

Jan 18, 2012 | 07:09 AM

g22cd5

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I would not do stretched tired on a car I drive fast. If it's low and slow stretch tires are a good look. They are just not really all that safe on a car you are going to be going fast in.

Jan 18, 2012 | 07:28 AM

crispin

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What is 'stretched tires'?

I have never heard of that term before

Jan 18, 2012 | 02:06 PM

g22cd5

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basically when you stretch your tires your putting a smaller tires on a wider rims. Ppl have been doing this for a long time.

example:

Jan 18, 2012 | 02:20 PM

JimBlake

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I guess I'm just not up-to-date. I don't particularly like the way that looks.

Jan 18, 2012 | 11:28 PM

I<3myCB7

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Thnx for your opinion g22cd5. I guess I will not be stretching my tires since i'm planning to make my car boosted.

Jan 19, 2012 | 08:18 AM

g22cd5

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some cars it looks good on with the right rims. But you can’t go crazy with stretching the tires. Like the hatch I posted...that's too much for my taste. They tend to look good with offset rims on rwd cars. BMW is a good example they look sick with stretched tires...

Also CB7 you can run stretch tired...you just can't go crazy. You can do something like the last few pics. But you have to do it right to keep your traction and get everything dialed in just right. You also will eat up tires much faster by stretching them. Go check out cb7tuner.com see if they have info over there. It’s a 4th gen community

Jan 19, 2012 | 09:35 AM

live2rice

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I would not stretch tires on any car. To me the whole rusted hood, roof rack, loads of camber, and stretch tires thing is dumb. I like to make my car functional, all those make it the opposite.